James Frederick Sasseville (August 28, 1927 – November 30, 2005) was an American cartoonist and graphic artist, best known for his work with ''

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'' creator

Charles M. Schulz Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip ''Peanuts'', featuring what are probably his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. He is wi ...

. Born in

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, he graduated from the

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in 1948. He served in both

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and the

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. He worked at the

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, where he met fellow Minnesotan Schulz. Sasseville worked with Schulz on the short-lived sports comic strip ''

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'' (1957–1959) and the ''Peanuts''

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feature, where he was succeeded by

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. Though he followed Schulz to California in 1959, in 1960 he left cartooning to become a graphic artist. Jim Sasseville died on November 30, 2005.

Bibliography

* Charles Schulz and Jim Sasseville, ''It's Only a Game'', 2004,

External links

"Jim Sasseville: The Ghost in the (Peanuts) Machine"

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1927 births 2005 deaths American cartoonists Charles M. Schulz Artists from Minneapolis 20th-century American artists {{US-cartoonist-stub